Secundinus
son of the Lombard Restitutus and Dareca, a sister of St. Patrick, and bishop of Domnach
b. 372 · d. 447
2nd Archbishop of Armagh
Offices
Secundinus, or Sechnall as he was known in Irish, was founder and patron saint of Domhnach Sechnaill, County Meath, who went down in medieval tradition as a disciple of St Patrick and one of the first bishops of Armagh. Historians have suggested, however, that the connection with St Patrick was a later tradition invented by Armagh historians in favour of their patron saint and that Secundinus is more likely to have been a separate missionary, possibly a companion of Palladius.
Related people
- Saint Patrick succeeded · inferred
- Moríóg of Inchbofin sibling of · traditional
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Annala Uladh, Annals of Ulster 1 claim — Annals of Ulster (ed. Hennessy) I, A.D. 431–1056